The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-01-27
CURRENT TOPICS.


PiyKEYE has made its appearance among
the horses in Pittsburgh
GIsonn equal 10 tho Jamaica is growing
on Caloosahatchie river, Fla.
ExoLASp proposes TO tax foreign work
men twenty i've dollars u year,
ST, Lous has one saloon TO cvery i75 poo
pie and one church for every 1850.
AT Louisvilic, Nathan Bloom, dead
merchant, had funeral mile long
TBERE is proposition 10 change Inaug-
uration day from March to April 20.
THE Connecticut General Assembly TO
elected General Hawlcy U. y. Senator.
SMOKED red, whatever that may be, is
named among the new fashionable colors.
TEXAS wants Congress TO pass a law
against dealing In grain and cotton futures
Two sisters In Washington bear the
names Of Desire Moore and Plenty Moore.
KASsAs has over $4,000 Of school funds
Idle In the treasury awaiting Investment
IT now seems probable that tho first Of
April will sec every army In Europe in the
field.
Ex-sExAroR JosEPH T.. McDosALD's law
practice IL said 10 be worth near 10000
per year.
SOCIALISTS In America are sending money
20 Germany TO help their brethren out Of
the polls.
IN Ecnvo Leon, Mex, woman recently
gave birth to i've children, thrcc boys and
two girls.
TrxT toboggans now "dangle from the
bangle worn by the progressive girl OF
the period
ronoooAx note paper and envelopes have
appeared In time TO bc mixed up with t,s
craIe Of the hour.
IL Upper Alton, H., there are ls1 marr'-
agcable young women and only eigh'esn
eligible single men.
FouR prosperous citizens Of New York
earn their livelihood as doctors for the lap
dogs OF rich women.
THEr have been experimenting with
jur.es OF six men in Michigan, and the peo-
pie seem 10 be satisncd.
aMosrAxk turnipsp Is the name by
which 300 or 500 Jumps Of bullion art
knownin that Territory.
The new aqueduct In New York has thus
far caused the slaughter OF sixty-one men
and tho serious injury Of iss others.
IupoE STANLEY MATTHEWS house Wash.
ington has fne music room, containing a
pipe organ and concert grand pisao.
QUEEN Verona never cats any but stale
bread. This, however, IL believed 10 be
moro q matter Of taste than necessity.
No doubt anxiety 10 see herself in becom
ing mourning led Miss vsn zand,, Of Chi
cago, 70 desire 70 wed Anarchist Spies.
THE heating OF cars by steam from the
locomotive boiler has been tried with sue.
cess on several New England railroads.
Fanscu ladies arc wearing dresses Of
plaid wool this winter. The latest fancy
IL 10 have all the plAids OF tho skirt bias
PErEn b. SWEENEY. tho "brains" Of the
Tweed ring, to-day walks the streets OF
New York unknown, unnoticcd, stout and
shabby.
AN Irish landlord with a rent roll OF
5000 per annum has been obliged TO go TO
the poor house because he can't collect any
Of his rcLts.
TuH Galveston Nars wants passenger
cars $50 constructed that they will fall u
pieces when they turn over, 80 that pcop,
can escape
CoxaRKssMAx GRAIN, Of Texas, Ton
Ochiltrcc's successor, Is tho only native
born Texan In the delegation from the
Lone Star State.
The Oldest surviving holder Of diploma
from Dartmouth Is Abraham 7. Lowe, NJ,
d., OF Boston, who was born in l7vd and
was graduated In 1919.
In the northwest provinces OF India, in
cluding oudi, there are 100000 Hindoos
and Mohammedans, crowded into an area
Of 100, ,1o8 square miles.
..nNt In. Eav h.o
lievcs that war win be prccipitated when
.'the flowers that bloom In the spring
mako their appearance.
NEW JERsEY education statistics show
thirty-oight thousand children, between
the ages Of seven and twelve, did not at
tend school last season
OscEos.A, a town on the west side OF thu
Cascades, In Washington Territory, boast,
OF schoolmistress Of eighteen summers
and weight OF $50 pounds.
THE remains Of CALIFORNIA; noted bcne
factor, Lick, have been deposited In Z
niche In the foundation on which the grea'
Lick telescope Is TO be placed.
CHICAGO invested S22,Oo0000 in building
enterprises In 1885 II Is estimated tha
but for the strikes the amount invcsted
would have reached sSo,000,000.
II the Atlanta Constitution Is correct
there is q clerk in the department OF Sec
rotary Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lanai
whose name is Washington Jefferson Lin
coin Gerritt Smith Jones.
THEnB Is a story extant to tho effect tina
the Hon. benjamin Harris Brewster love-
a CRATE flre, bat hates bla'k coal, ant
accordingly has his servant whitewasl
the coal before II is brought into his room
OWN 223 900 cubic yards Of limestone an'
slate rock has fallen out OF the bank Of Nj
seara river, near Horseshoe Falls, OIL
the Canadian side. The break has con
siderably changed the appearance Of th'
bank.
Mark TWAIN said, recently, when asbo'
whether II was true that he proposed 4
start a newspsper in Hartford; "Oh, no I
shall never start newspaper 90 long as
can buy three for less than IL costs 10 hav'
my boots backed
THz queen Of Greece takes her airing
in carriage for which she paid 5000. !
was bpilt for the tr!umpasl entry Of th
Comts de chambord into Paris. which rsv
ar took place, owing to circumstance
over which the ccnnte had no control.